Tired Turkey...

ChikinInThePines

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Mar 13, 2017
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Not sure if this goes here, but Turkeys are poultry..Hey Everyone! I own chickens and 1 turkey...we started with 6, but all of them ran off with the wild ones except for one female who thinks she's a chicken. I checked on her today and she is moving very slow, has fluffed feathers, wings down, and keeping her neck close to her body.
I have never treated my flock with a coccidiostat and was wondering if it would hurt to do it now? If she is sick, I don't want to add more stress. We had strange cold front come through last night here in South Carplina and the temps dropped to the low 60's this morning. We usually sit in the 80-90's. Maybe she's just under the weather because of a temp change? Should I put Corid in the water for a week?
 

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If she was a chicken I'd say she's definitely sick but I don't know anything about turkeys. She looks sick to me. How is her poop?
 
There is a turkey forum above under “Forums” that you can also post on. I know that turkeys can get cecal worms and blackhead from being around chickens. What color is her poop? Can you offer some fluids up to her beak, such as sugar water or electrolytes, or water and give her some NutriDrench? Have you wormed your flock lately, and with what? You can get Valbazen online and in some Southern States or Rural King. Dosage is 0.08 ml per pound of weight given once and again in 10 days. SafeGuard Liquid Goat Wormer or horse paste is easily found in most feed stores. Dosage is 0.25 ml per pound of weight given daily for 5 days. Those treat cecal, round, gape, and capillary worms. I would separate her in a pen or cage with food and water. It would not hurt her to treat with Corid, just in case she has coccidiosis. Blackhead or histomoniasis is treated with metronidazole, an antibiotic. Hopefully some turkey owners will chime in. Here is some reading:
https://extension.psu.edu/histomoniasis-blackhead-disease
 

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